Box-car construction.



1. H. W-EISBROD.

BOX CAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION 4FILED LULY 26.19I6.

Patented Oct. 30, 1917.

. To 'whom it 'may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB H. WEISBBOD, Ol' ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOB TO AMERICAN CAR AND FOUNDR-Y COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BOX-CAB CON STBUOTION.

speciation eimer: ratenf. Patented oet. so, 19.17.

Application mea July 2e, 191e. sei-m1 No. 111,401.

lBe it known that I', JACOB H. WEIsBRoD, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, and being a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and kuseful Improvements in -Box-CarConstructions, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the Same, reference being had to the accom anying drawings, which illustrate the pre erred form of the invention; though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof within the scope vof the art.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section of approximately one half of a box car equipped with the present invention. l

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view, the portion of said view at the right being taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking inthe Adirection indicated by the arrow, and the section at the left of Fig. 2 being vtaken substantially. midway the length of the car.

Fig. 3 is 'an enlarged fragmentary detail` sectional view showing the connection of the side sill, floor, sidesheathing, etc., as shown at the lower right hand side of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of the construction shown in Fi 3.

Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate further modifications all as hereinafter described.

- Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary detail hereinafter particularly described.

-The object of the present invention is to provide in a metallic underframe and wood' superstructure box car, means for supportingl short licor boards extending from the web of one side sillat one side ofthe car to the corresponding side sill at Vthe opposite side of the car, and in the same con- .struction to provide, means for connection thereto of the lower end of wood slde sheathing forming the outer shell of the car body. j', I

Other objects areto` provide: in a-,car of r the class described, deep platey girder z'center sills with continuouscross bearers intersectingsaid sills and extending from-side sill to side sill, thereby serving as support.

persons skilled in ing means forthe said sills Aand transmitting the load therefrom to the centensills.

ther features of advantage are the resultl of economy of manufacture and simplicity in assembllng the parts.

Referring particularly to the drawings, A indicates one of the center sills which, as will be noted in Fig. 1, is of the plate girder type and'extends from beyond the bolster at one end. to a corresponding point at the opposite end of the car. Intersecting the spacedl center sills, there beingtwo of such center sills, are continuous cross bearers 'B which extend ythrough the webs of and are connectedy with said center sills by angle plates C and D, said cross bearers extending outwardly to and below the side sills 2, as best shown at the left of Fig. 2.

Associated with the parts enumerated, are bolsters E of a conventional type comprising bolster center filler castings F, web plates G- and :top and bottom cover plates K, K, which bolsters, like the cross bearers B, extend outwardly below 'the side sills-2,'

as best shown at the right of Fig. 2.

-fThe said side sills are preferably formed of rolled Z-shaped sections disposed 'as shown in Figs. 3 and land in the preferred construction shortLA angles 10 are riveted at intervals to the webs of the side sills sho and are so disposed that the bottom legs of angles 8 are'secured to the web of the sill 2", y

said angles having bottom flanges.' projecting inwardly, that is, toward the center -of the car, upon which flan es rest floor nalling-strips 6', the latter be1ng bolted in posltion by vertical bolts 6a extending throu h said licor nai-ling.-stripsuY 6' and through t e inwardly vprojectinghorzontal flange .of said an le 8, which is, -inpisfecn an .1nwardly,y isposed, sillange. lmgthe modlfi-` cation qf .Fig. 62the angle l.9 is,s.ubstantially,v r'.

wadly .disposed leg of said.. angle@ andyfpis secured thereto by bolts 9, the floor nailin strips in this modiication being omitte To the door nailing strips 6, lwhich are shown in Figs. .3, 4 and 5, the short 'floor boards 5, forming the Hoor of the car, are secured by spikes or any suitable fastening means, and it is to be noted that the floor boards 5 in the type of construction illustrated, need only be of a length to an the space between the webs of the side sills. In the type of construction illustrated in Fig. 6, the side sill is of channel form and ike that of Fig. 5, the integral flanges of said channel are outwardly disposed, and in Fig. 6 an angle 9 `is riveted to theweb of said channel, with the horizontal leg of said angle disposed relatively intermediate the top and bottom flanges of said side sill, said horizontal leg ofthe angle 9 extending inwardly and serving as a direct supporting means for the ioor 5 illustrated in said iigure, which floor is secured to the angle 9 by bolts 9a extending through the floor 5 and through the inwardly disposed flange of the angle 9, thus eliminating, in this modification, the door nailing-strips 6 common to the other figures. v A

Resting upon the bottom flange ofx the channels 2a of Figsl 5 and 6, and upon the short angles 10 of the preferred construction of Fig. 3, are side sheathing nailingstrips 12.

Resting upon the top flanges of the side sills 2 and 2 are post pockets 4, through which extend framing rods 14, said rods extending vertically in the modification shown in Fig. 4, through the post pockets, the top Hange of the sill 2, and through said nailingstrip 12, a washer 15, of large area2 restin under said nailing-strip 12, and being hel inosition by nuts 16 on the lower ends of sai rods 14, thereby supgorting said nailing-strip 12, in the modi cationof Fig. 4, directly upon said frainin rods. In the preferred construction, owever, short anles 10 are disposed at convenient interva coincident with the locations of the pockets, and the framing rods 14 extendthrough the casting of which said post pockets are a part intermediate the pocket for the vertical 17 and that for the diagonal post or race 18, as best shown in Fig. 7, said framing rod extending thence through the top flange of the sill 2, through the side sheathing nailing-strip 12 and throu h said short angles 10, said rods being provi ed with nuts 16, as shown in Fig. 4. In the modifications of Figs. 5 and 6, the framing rods 14 pass downwardly through the post pockets 4, thence through the to flanges of the channel-shaped sills 2*,throug the side sheathing nailing-strip 12, and through the bottom lian of said side sills 2, nuts 16 being provid J t the bottom ends of said rods.

Employing the framing rods 14 as described and projecting them through the side sheathing nailing-strip, obviates the necessity for using a large number of bolts which would otherwise be required to secure said nailing-strips in position and di osing said nailing-strips beneath the top anges of the side sills, provides protecting means for such nailing-strips and prevents the rapid disintegration thereof, which would otherwise occur.

Likewise, the' angles 8, 9 and 10 being riveted to the vertical webs of the side sills, as shown, provide reinforcements for said sills and in Fig. 3 the angles serve as rigid anchoring means for the bottom ends of the framing rods 14', similar rigid anchoring means being provided in the modifications of Figs. 5 and 6 by the bottom flanges of the side sills 2a of said figures.

What I claim is:

1. In combination, a metallic side sill having a vertical web and horizontal ianges, wood sheathing lapping said web, a sheathing nailing-strip interposed between the outer side of said web and said sheathing a framing rod projected through said` sheathing nailing-strip and one of said sill flanges, and a ioor'terminating within and supported by a flange` projecting inwardly from said sill web.

2. In combination ina railway car, metallic side sills each having a vertical web with connected horizontal ilanges, a ioor nterposed between the webs of said sills and supported by flanges thereof, sidefsheathing nailing-strips disposed on the outer side of said sill web, and sheathing lapping said sheathing nailing-strips.

3. In combination in a railway car, metallic side sills each having a vertical web with connected horizontal flanges, a loor interposed between the webs of said sills and supported by flanges thereof, side-sheathing nailing-strips disposed on'the outer side of said sill web, sheathing secured to said sheathin i nailing-stri s, and framing rods projec through sai latter nailing-strips and a flange of said sill.

4. In combination inA a railway car, a metallic side sill having a vertical web with horizontal laterally extending flanges connected with said web', a wood-sheathing nailing-strip below one of saidv flanges, a sheathing lapp' and being secured to said naili -sti'ip, a oor supported by another of sai lian and a framing rod extending vertica through said sheathing nailing-strip and' a flange of said sill.

5. In combination in a railway car, a metallic side sill having a vertical web with horizontal laterally extending connected with said web, a wood-sheathing -strip below one of said a n sheathing lapping and being to said nailing-strip, a iioor nailing-strip supported by another of said flanges, a loor resting on said floor nailing-strip and terminating at the .inner side of said sill web, and means securing said sheathing nailing-strip in position.

6. In combination, spaced metallic side sills each having a vertical web and an outwardly 'disposed upper flange, wood sheathing lapping said web, a sheathing nailingstrip interposed between `the outer side of said web and said sheathing, a framing rod projected through said sheathing nailingstrip and one of said sill ilanges, and a floor extending between the inner faces of the ,p

webs of said side sills adapted to be positioned from above the latter and supported by ianges projecting inwardly from said sill webs. A

7. In combinationin a railway car, metallic side sills each having a vertical web with connected horizontal ianges, a iioor interposed between the webs of said sills and supported by flanges thereof, side-sheathing nailing-strips disposed on the outer side of` said sill web, sheathin Vlapping saidL,-sl1ea,th ing nailing-strips, an framingods securing said nailing-strips in position.

8. In combination in a railway car, metallic side sills of Z-shape in cross section, each having a vertical web with integral horizontal flanges, a loor interposed between the webs of said sills and supported by ianges thereof, side sheathing nailing-strips disposed on the outer side of said sill web,

angles secured to said sill webs and supporting said nailing strips, sheathing secured te said sheathing nailing-strips, and framing rods projected through said latter nailingstrips and through said angles.

9 In combination in a railway car, a metallic side sill having a vertical web with horizontal laterally extending flanges connected with said web, a wood-sheathing nailing-strip below the upper of said flanges, a sheathing lapping and being secured to said nailing strip, a floor supported by another of said flanges, and a framing rod extending vertically through said sheathing nailing-strip and the top ange of said sill.

10. In combination in a railway car, a metallic side sill having a vertical web with horizontal laterally extending anges connected with said web, a wood-sheathing nailing-strip below one of said flanges, a sheathing iapping and being secured to said nailing-strip, a Hoor nailing-strip supported by another of said flanges, a floor resting on said iioor nailing-strip and terminating at the inner side of said sill web, post pocketsrestingonthe top flanges of said side sills and means securing said sheathing nailing-strip and said post pockets in position In witness whereof I have hereunto sf-S my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR IIOCHBERG, BLAsDEL SHAPIEIGH. 

